Saturday, May 19, 2007

Denee Barr Art News and More

Columbia Triathlon
Centennial Lake
Sunday, May 20, 2007
www.tricolumbia.org

Race Start 6:45am 1.5k Swim - 41k Bike - 10k Run

-----------------------------------------Denee

Friday, May 18, 2007

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Columbia Festival of the Arts 2007

www.columbiafestival.com

June 6 - June 23rd........Your Summer Starts here!
Celebrate the Visual and Performing Arts

Denee

Thursday, May 17, 2007

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Anamnesis
by Christopher Lonegan

Medium: Oil on Canvas


From Conflict Peace: Finding Common Ground
A Juried Exhibition

May 17-June 17, 2007


Columbia Art Center
6100 Foreland Garth, Columbia, MD 21045
email: artstaff@columbiaassociation.com
(410) 730-0075


Mon-Thu 9am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 9am-5pm
Sun 12-5pm


Gala Reception and Awards Presentation
Saturday, May 19 from 6-9pm


Wednesday, May 16, 2007

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Grand Opening
Saturday, May 5, 2007
photos courtesy ICAD

International Center for Artistic Development, Inc.
New Weave Building @ Historic Savage Mill
Mezzanine Level
(above the Ice Cream Shop)
8600 Foundry Street
Savage, Maryland 20763
(301) 604-4484
email: icadcabt@yahoo.com
www.camelliablackwell.com

My daughter and I attended the celebration of the new location opening of the International Center for Artistic Development, Inc. (ICAD). There are two galleries full of unique and beautiful art works on display in the Permanent Collection Gallery and the Print Gallery. Above is a photo of the behind the scenes preparation for this special event.

Enjoy the Day!.......................Denee

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Grand Opening
Saturday, May 5, 2007
photos courtesy ICAD

International Center for Artistic Development, Inc.

New Weave Building @ Historic Savage Mill
Mezzanine Level
(above the Ice Cream Shop)
8600 Foundry Street
Savage, Maryland
I know Camellia Blackwell as a wonderful printmaker (etchings, lithographs, aquatints and more). She's exhibited with the Washington Printmakers and the Maryland Printmakers. Her studio provides fine art services such as photo restorations, matting, framing, calligraphy, photography, mural design, portraits, and commissioned art works. Camellia's website is www.camelliablackwell.com and she can be reached in her art studio/gallery at 301-604-4484.

The International Center for Artistic Development, Inc. (ICAD) is a 17 year old non-profit arts education and cultural organization that provides mentorship and support for local, national, and international projects. The Founder and Executive Director is Camellia Blackwell.

In 2oo2, fine artist, curator, arts administrator, and educator Dr. Camellia Blackwell, Phd. was honored with a Network Journal Magazine 25 Influential Black Women in Business National Award presented at the New York Hilton Hotel, New York City and sponsored by Avon, Verizon, L'Oreal USA, and Kodak.

Celebrate the Day...Business + Art...Enjoy the Art...Make Art a Lifestyle...Make Art Count...Denee


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Future Exhibitions @ The Walters Art Museum soon!
Baltimore, Maryland
www.thewalters.org

Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt June 15, 2007 - August 26, 2007 This exhibition celebrates the distinctive and beautiful quilts made by African American women living in the isolated community of Gee's Bend, Alabama.

Linda Day Clark: The Gee's Bend Photographs June 15, 2007 - September 02, 2007. In conjunction with the special exhibition, Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt the Walters will feature Linda Day Clark: The Gees Bend Photographs, a stunning exhibition of 25 photographs by Baltimore resident (former Howard County resident) Linda Day Clark.

Gee's Bend Community Day @ The Walter's Museum

June 16, 2007 Time: 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Quilts, quilt making, and quilters! Join us for a day of activities and fun as we celebrate the African-American quiltmakers from Gee's Bend, Alabama in our special exhibition Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt. Meet the talented women who have created these beautiful quilts which feature unique bold designs reminiscent of 20th-century art. Learn how and why they quilt!

Walters Museum ART ACTIVITIES
Quilt postcards
Found object quilts

Walters Museum PERFORMANCES & SPECIAL APPEARANCES
Booksigning by the Gee’s Bend quilters!
Storytellers and musical performers!
The African American Quilters of Baltimore quilt demos, interactive activities, and more!
Kyra Banks, author of Martha Ann’s Quilt for Queen Victoria
Sparky & Rhonda Rucker's musical performance!

For more information call 410-547-9000, ext. 300


Celebrate the Day.......................Denee

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One Among Many I
c Anne Chan 2006

Medium: interlocking business cards
30" x 60" x 25" (desk)
41" x 23" x 23" (chair)

From Art Today in Words and Images
21st Annual Critics' Residency Program
Maryland Art Place
Baltimore, Maryland
April 24 - June 2, 2007
www.mdartplace.org


Art Today in Words and Images: 21st Annual Critics' Residency Program currently at the Maryland Art Place (MAP) is a first rate
exhibition............Don't Miss It!

Artists Sofia Silvia, Maren Hassinger, Maria Karametou, Benjamin Piwowar, Mary Walker, Anne Chan, Breon Gilleran, Alzaruba along with writers Al Miner and Ding Ren plus critics in residence Eleanor Hearney and Irving Sandler strut their creative selves all the way up in Baltimore, Maryland.

Sofia Silvia - haunting panoramic digital c-print photographs of parking garage and shopping center

Maren Hassinger - ephemeral materials (newspaper) twisted and cyclical in nature and time installation

Maria Karametou - woven wall hangings and multi-part sculptures made of hair, bobby pins, mirror, steel, pine cones

Benjamin Piwowar - candy colored, acrylic and mixed media dreamscape landscape paintings

Mary Walker - acrylic, charcoal, fabric, collaged lace with golden crimson hues on canvas

Anne Chan - plexi-glass & vinyl wall mounting, business card installation, and digital ultrachrome photograph

Breon Gilleran - chrome plated forged steel sculptures and charcoal drawings

Alzaruba - weathered wood sculptures, cibachrome photograph, and digital performance art piece

Al Miner - "What You Don't See Can Hurt You: The Influence of Cinematic Suspense Mechanisms on the Photographs of Anne Chan and Sofia Silva" (commentary)

Ding Ren - "Repetition is Not a Sign of Stupidity" (commentary)

Eleanor Heartney - Contributing Editor to Art in America and Artpress

Irving Sandler - Premier Art Critic

My daughter and I attended the Artist Public Forum held on Saturday, May 5th.........what a treat.

Enjoy the Work..........Make Art Count.....................Denee

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5 pm
Staple Photo with Blue Chairs
c Anne Chan 2006
All Rights Reserved

Medium: ultrachrome archival digital print 18" x 27"

From Art Today in Words and Images
21st Annual Critics' Residency Program
Maryland Art Place
Baltimore, Maryland
April 24 - June 2, 2007
www.mdartplace.org

Monday, May 14, 2007

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Denee Barr + mother, daughter, son, and aunt were on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC this past Saturday at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) "Building Community Through the Arts." We took the How to Make a Photogram and Create Digital Negatives workshop.

First, everybody started out in the CHAW traditional "wet" darkroom (19th/20th century) taking turns at the enlarger (traditional darkroom photo "printer") by placing their hands, eye glasses, and other objects on a piece of Ilford RC photo (light-sensitive with silver nitrate + gelatin) paper . Then we carried our prints to trays filled with photo chemistry........printed our images (witnessed prints evolving before our eyes), bathed our prints in running water, and set prints on drying racks......voila!.......we made photograms.

Second, everybody goes into the CHAW digital darkroom (21st century) and creates digital self-portraits on computers installed with a mini-camera. We each decide on the presentation of our digital portraits by working in Photoshop (computer software program where one can select tone - black and white or color, select effects - sepia....mosaic....solarized....traditional, select size and shape....elongated or truncated, etc. etc. etc. Then we hit the print button on our computers and out comes our self-portraits printed on photocopy paper....creating digital "paper negatives." Our instructor then takes our "paper negatives" to another printer installed with acetate sheets (clear, thin, plastic) and prints out our portraits so we can have "film-like" acetate negatives to take back into the CHAW "wet" darkroom....to make traditional black and white photos.

So we step back into the 19th/20th century and return to the CHAW traditional darkroom. Everybody takes turns placing a sheet of Ilford RC photo (light sensitive) paper below the enlarger head (traditional "wet" darkroom) with our "film-like" acetate negatives placed on top of our photo paper (contact printing process)....we expose our photo papers to the enlarger light for a few seconds....then we submerge our prints in developer, stop bath, and fixer (photo chemical baths)....finally we rinse our prints in trays of running H20....dry prints on racks....voila!.... we've made black and white silver gelatin prints....a process that I have been intimately aware of since stepping into darkroom photo classes for the first time (late 1980's) at the Howard County Center for the Arts in Ellicott City, Maryland.

Anyway, yesterday more photo mysteries of how photographers make prints were solved by my family....they rolled up their sleeves and engaged themselves in 19th/20th/21st century photography.

Everybody had fun....made photos and they didn't begrudge me too much because I made them take this workshop....www.chaw.org.

Make Art.....Capture and Print Photos....Celebrate the Day!

Denee

Sunday, May 13, 2007

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Conversation Between a Mother and a Daughter
c Denee Barr 2001
All Rights Reserved

Medium: silver gelatin print collage and photo emulsion on Arches paper


Conversation Between a Mother and a Daughter debuted in exhibition at the Artists' Gallery in Columbia, Maryland in 2001.


Celebrate the Day.....Happy Mother's Day.....Denee